#m

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#choose #delusion #drag #especially #friends

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#influence #lives #many #moments #most

There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#building #happens #i #i love #just

Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#change #changes #connect #different #enveloping

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#although #art #background #commercial #hell

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#art #did #ever #i #know

Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#beauty #believe #even #freedom #good

Being German, I think we don't really express a lot of things. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#express #german #i #i think #lot

But quite honestly, personally, I was much more concerned - I mean, there's not much I can do about my appearance obviously other than spending four hours in hair and makeup. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#appearance #concerned #four #hair #honestly

Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#face #going #guts #harsh #i